--- title: Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when t… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when they dislike them, and change bad ones through proper ways. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Neighbours, the council, rules and fai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) / 17 # Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 17 Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when they dislike them, and change bad ones through proper ways. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** share, follow, dislike, change · **To what, where:** Rules, bad ones, proper ways This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:17 # text = Rules and laws are shared agreements; people follow them even when they dislike them, and change bad ones through proper ways. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 agreements agreement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | present · passive | | Rules and laws | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | present | people | rules *= rule* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **dislike** | present | people | rules *= rule* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **change** | present | people *not said here* | bad ones | | proper ways | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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